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Retail PC Linux Testing & Benchmarking

12-15-2008, 08:40 PM

Phoronix: Retail PC Linux Testing & Benchmarking

It's approaching five years since Phoronix was conceived and in that time we have published 1,300 featured articles (many of them can be found here) and thousands of news postings that relate to using computer hardware -- both desktop and server related -- on Linux. A vast majority of these articles have been about computer components like motherboards, graphics cards, and processors, but very few have been about retail PCs that consumers can easily buy in stores or on the Internet...

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Well, we have three Ubuntu Dells in my family, my sister has a Latitude with 8.10, my mom got the Inspiron 1525n with 8.04, and I got the Inspiron 1420n and am now dual booting 8.04.1 and 8.10..

What's odd is that Dell's Ubuntu page doesn't have either the 1420n or 1525n anymore.. They were the two best deals too.

Maybe I'll have to start some kind of Windows-refund business, where you pick the laptop from whatever company you want, sign this thing, then I order it and get the Windows license refunded and an Ubuntu install with all the essentials installed...
I could probably operate on the refunded Windows licenses alone.

End users shouldn't have their choice of hardware at all restricted by their choice of a Free operating system.

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Please tll me you guys are going to do some System76's http://system76.com/ and other linux only companies.

I'd like to see some runs of their laptops at least.

Do they still sell those Linspire boxes?

How about something from Puget? http://www.pugetsystems.com/ Last I heard they would do an install of Ubuntu for you, albeit unsupported. Though they do build some nice high end boxes.

[EDIT] I just checked http://www.pugetsystems.com/alternate_os.php and it sems that they perfer Ubuntu but will also install Fedora 10 or Open SUSE 11 upon request, though the page does seem a bit dated as still not knowing that Creative has released drivers and whatnot.